http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=user%3axpi0t0s&o=DateDescendingSearch results for 'user:xpi0t0s'en-USXMOD (Build: 3615.29165)http://www.englishforums.com/English/IqTestQuestions/2/nbvp/Post.htm#70346Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:32:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:70346xpi0t0sAsia should have been left out of the choices if Mongolia is the answer. Otherwise there is no clue this is not in fact a geographical question and this is not an IQ question but a form of "what number am I thinking of" question. Any answer could be correct: France is to Europe as China is to Asia - geography France is to Europe as China is to Africa - France and Europe have six letters each; China and Africa have five. France is to Europe as China is to Mongolia - the vowel count thing Given enough time I'm sure I could come up with something for Oz and HK as well. So how are you supposed to guess what the questioner was thinking, and how exactly do you know he wasn't thinking of letter count?http://www.englishforums.com/English/Butterfly/xzzq/post.htm#70341Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:13:20 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:70341xpi0t0sOK, but perhaps you need to indicate what meaning you are after: Zhuangzi's puzzle was crazy, so he became the butterfly. I'm poetic.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Doubts/xzvr/post.htm#70339Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:10:39 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:70339xpi0t0s1. No, neither is comma followed by and. I'm not sure the two commas are necessary either. The following is not unclear: According to X this crisis first arose in the religious sphere then spread to cover philosophy, the sciences and the peudo-sciences. 2. No, I think it is optional. 3. Depends on the meaning. As written, we are considering a number of things, and trying to decide which of those things he understands to be "fideism." Change as to by, and we know he is using the word "fideism" but we don't know what he means when he uses that word. So the question cannot be answered without additional information.http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatRulesFormingContractions/mczn/post.htm#59713Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:01:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:59713xpi0t0sNice one MrP - hadn't thought of those. Point conceded.http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatRulesFormingContractions/mczn/post.htm#59679Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:43:30 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:59679xpi0t0sWell, I got bored with people nicking perfectly good nicks, saxman, jazzman, jazman (I thought dropping a z would make this one unique), even saxmaestr0 all got nabbed by other people, so a few months ago I decided to use an old password instead of trying to think up yet another new nick (and I don't like the nick+number format; being saxman195623478568953 really doesn't do much for me; besides, you still have the same problem: people have to remember the number). xpi0t0s is formed from the Greek for Christ (I'm a Christian), then picking English letters that resemble the Greek ones (e.g. chi looks a bit like an X), then because some Unix systems require digits in passwords I replaced the o's with 0s. In most cases people don't need...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatRulesFormingContractions/mczn/post.htmMon, 06 Dec 2004 12:36:45 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:59632xpi0t0sNB: please set pedantic mode to full. I'm not asking for general vague feelings, but for justification or rejection of a hypothesis from specific (and preferably quoted) rules. So, the question is: can contractions be formed freely? If there is no l'ss of cl'rity, and the res'lt'ng st'm'nt is not amb'g's, can they just be created at will? For context: I was discussing with a friend an obviously incorrect sign outside a shop yesterday that read "Sandwich's." We both agreed that this is not the correct plural form of the noun "sandwich". I then engaged pedantic mode, and pointed out that it could be correct on the grounds that the plural of sandwich is not sandwichs but sandwiches, and that the apostrophe could be indicating the...